Usage examples of "en désespoir de cause" in French with translation to English

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Je n'en vois pas de cause. I see no reason.
En tout état de cause, il était satisfait des résultats. At any rate, he was satisfied with the results.
En tout état de cause, je dois finir ce travail pour demain. At any rate, I must finish this work by tomorrow.
Il est devenu aveugle à cause de l'accident. He went blind from the accident.
Ne te laisse pas aller au désespoir pour la seule raison que tu n'as pas pu être inscrit dans le collège qui était en tête de ta liste de vœux. Don't give in to despair just because you didn't get into the college that was at the top of your wish-list.
C'était à cause de ma montre qui retardait de cinq minutes. That was because my watch was five minutes slow.
Le désespoir l'a conduit à faire une tentative de suicide. Despair drove him to attempt suicide.
Quelle est la cause ? What's the cause?
Une peine parfaite n'existe pas. Tout comme le désespoir parfait n'existe pas. There's no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Dieu est la cause de toutes choses. God is the cause of all things.
L'évêque eu pitié des étrangers dans le désespoir. The bishop took pity on the desperate immigrants.
Plusieurs milliers de gens n'avaient plus de moyens de transport à cause de l'accident. Several thousand people were deprived of transportation by the accident.
J'ai souvent été pris de désespoir. I was often seized by despair.
Cela me cause une grande joie. It brings me great joy.
Et lorsque le sablier s'est écoulé, le sablier de la temporalité, lorsque le bruit de la vie séculière s'est tu et que son incessante ou inefficace agitation a pris fin, lorsque tout autour de vous est immobile comme cela est dans l'éternité, alors l'éternité vous interroge vous et chaque individu parmi ces millions et ces millions, à propos d'une seule chose : si vous avez vécu ou pas dans le désespoir. And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
Quelques vols furent retardés à cause d'un accident mineur. A couple of flights were delayed on account of a minor accident.
Elle était au désespoir à la mort de son mari. She was in despair when her husband died.
Actuellement, la cause de la maladie reste inconnue. At present, the cause of the disease is unknown.
La masse des hommes vit une existence de désespoir tranquille. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Cause toujours, je ne changerai pas d'avis. Say what you will; I won't change my mind.
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